Example sentences of "of [pers pn] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he joined Ingard and wanted a number two he thought of me and asked me to come in with him . |
| 2 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 3 | After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve . |
| 4 | My right arm , he forced around in front of me and pressed it hard on to the table so that the fingers splayed out just in front of my face . |
| 5 | ‘ The other girls in the home make fun of me and steal my clothes . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 7 | She grabbed hold of me and rammed my head into the crook of her arm and tried to force the bar into my mouth . |
| 8 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 9 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 10 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 11 | Then he stopped in front of me and put his face very close to mine . |
| 12 | And then , I liked having nice little teas served to me for a change ; to have Wilson taking care of me and treating me like a lady — because there was a little something between us . |
| 13 | She squats down in front of me and puts her elbows on my knees . |
| 14 | Pylons strode down from it , past a settlement and a water-tower on the plain due south of me and lost themselves in the haze to the west . |
| 15 | And she put my head on my hands on the desk in front of me and believe me , I went to sleep , it was must have been very , very new , compared to being at home and perhaps being laid there . |
| 16 | My voice was taut with anger as I pulled it out of the shelf in front of me and opened it on my knees . |
| 17 | Take care of me and understand my needs magically . |
| 18 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 19 | ‘ And is that how you show your resentment , by stripping off naked in front of me and rippling your sexy body invitingly ? ’ |
| 20 | I am greatly touched that she thinks of me and remembers me even in the state of forgetfulness of human affairs in which she now finds herself . |
| 21 | I decided that I needed to get some support , to find someone who could , let us say , take charge of me and give me advice . |
| 22 | ‘ Andrew had his defences down as Waterworth came across in front of me and hit him in the mouth and knocked his head on the floor . |
| 23 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 24 | But he 's , he just really has to get in touch with one of them and tell them the prices . |
| 25 | say twenty odd of them and circulate them ? |
| 26 | She had seen nothing of them and heard nothing except their horn in the recesses of the forest , a joyous and at the same time a melancholy sound which filled her captors with unease . |
| 27 | Edinburgh University , they 'll take copies of them and keep them there for ever as a sort of reference museum . |
| 28 | The dreams were all in a mess on the top , so I got hold of them and put them underneath me to stop them blowing away ( not that there was any wind ) and hunted through the rest . |
| 29 | Sixty of them and put them out and make them into nice little lines and that and see what things you 'd have to multiply together to make twelve or what numbers you 'd multiply together cos it 'd be so many sets of like four sets of three or three sets of four . |
| 30 | In the class see actual oral erm knowledge , I could talk with any of them and put my point a , and I could come up with ideas could n't put it down in |